After a long, largely very dry spell, I’ve finally started getting back into Photoshop and designing websites again. Last fall, my inspiration and desire mysteriously disappeared. Between October and now, I’ve only made one thing–a perfectly non-functional Danny/Mary piece that’s posted below. Lately, the interest has been returning though. I’ve been rescreencapping the early part of season 2 of Las Vegas from DVD, and I’ve been helping a friend to get her website up and running. I also bought a new web design/coding book (Codin’ for the Web by Charles Wyke-Smith). Between those three things, I’m all fired up to get back into this. I’m thinking maybe a new batch of 100×100 Dary icons is on the near horizon. I’m planning new layouts and gearing up to make more codes for most of my fanlistings. Maybe I’ll make some new wallpapers too–the requisite Danny/Mary ones along with Josh and Donna from TWW and Derek and Meredith from Grey’s Anatomy.

Tonight, I decided to get started with my first project back–a new layout for my Mary (from Las Vegas) fanlisting. I went through some of the new season 2 screencaps and picked out some I thought were really cute. I fired up Photoshop. I got out the graphics tablet. I started trying to blend, and that’s where it all seemed to fall apart. I had picked out 4 caps to use, and they will not blend together right. Granted, upon looking at them again, some of them were not the best choice at all for blending in that they seemed to have other people’s shoulders, etc. in them. The shots were different widths, making Mary different-sized in all of them. Usually, I can figure out a way to get those kinds of caps to go together–rearranging them or resizing them. No such luck tonight.

I seem to be out of practice when it comes to this stuff. I apparently did not forget how to code a web page, but my blending skills seem to have disappeared. I eventually gave up, for tonight, out of frustration. I’m going to try picking new pictures tomorrow night and trying again.